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    It is not the case that Four-dimensionalist ontology (Sider, Lewis) treats objects as perduring wholes composed of temporal parts just as events are.

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    • 1.Our experience and language treat objects as unified wholes persisting through time, not as scattered temporal aggregates or bundles.
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    • 2.Temporal parts are metaphysically obscure: we have no perceptual access to temporal parts, unlike spatial parts we can isolate and examine.
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    • 3.The analogy between time and space fails: spatial extension is observable and divisible; temporal extension is experientially asymmetric and unidirectional.
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    • 1.Events are paradigmatically composed of temporal parts (a war includes battles at different times). Objects should have uniform ontology with events.
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    • 2.Temporal parts resolve change: an object's temporal stages have different properties without contradiction, unlike enduring wholes.
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    • 3.Four-dimensionalism provides elegant symmetry: time is a dimension like space, and objects extend through it as they extend through space.
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